CASE IH 956 full rebuild

greendragon3

bit of re-assembly today .

greendragon3

another update guys , cab on !

Thargor

Lovely work as always Greendragon, is the uncle getting a free restore job or is this costing him a bit?

greendragon3

cheers thargor , no its a paying job , he supplied all the parts and there will be a bill for labour when all is done , but we wont go too hard on him .

greendragon3

roof on with new lamps , trying to sort out the rats nest that is the wiring now , its a wild mess with lots of previous butchering and hacking done to it , someone tried to bypass a lot of relays and switches and left a real fire hazard after them , im trying to get her as near back to original as i can with a new isolation switch fitted .

greendragon3

glass all in , wiring all done , shes on the button now with all original gauges and switches re-instated and working like they should , gave her a full service all oils and filters and filled her with pure coolant , also we are starting to put some of the red bits back on her and i managed to get original replacement seat cushions for her ( pics to follow when they are out of the box ) , nearly there now bonnet on next and she will start looking like a tractor again .

Thargor

How do you get the Massey Ferguson/fire engine red paint so good on all your jobs?

greendragon3

seat with new cushions and interior nearly in ( sorry for the crappy pics it was late last night when we finished and my phone's not the best ) also got the bonnet on after over two hours of fine fettering , taking the thing on and off and it weighs a feckin ton ha ha , she's starting to look like a tractor again now .

greendragon3

greendragon3

nearly there now just a last few bits to finish her off , sticker , steps , mirrors and a good wash and valet should leave her ready to go , bit of a show in lissadell house in county sligo in a few days so we are hoping to have her out in all her glory for that ,meanwhile ive put together a montage of all the photos of the rebuild from start to finish and made a video of it , dont mind the music choice its all i could get that was long enough for the video .

https://youtu.be/akSR9BJyTnI

greendragon3

finally finished guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!

greendragon3

a reminder of how it was

TheBody

Unbelieveable work! It looks like it rolled off the production line in the factory. I wish I could find somebody like you to restore my old MF65.

Are you a mechanic by trade or are you self taught?

Love all your threads. Keep them coming.

greendragon3

TheBody wrote: »

Unbelieveable work! It looks like it rolled off the production line in the factory. I wish I could find somebody like you to restore my old MF65.

Are you a mechanic by trade or are you self taught?

Love all your threads. Keep them coming.

thanks mate , no self taught im afraid , we just started off doing up an old zetor and it spread from there , this is our first paying job , have a 3 ton kobelco mini digger stripped down in the shed now for this mans brother , shes getting all new pins and bushings and rollers and then a full re-spray so it will be nice to see how that turns out .:D:)

paulmclaughlin

TheBody wrote: »

Love all your threads. Keep them coming.

+1, I always get excited when I see your threads have an update!

Odelay

Excellent work. Whatever it cost the owner it is money well spent, especially on his own machine, he knows what he has.

greendragon3

just a few final shots of the interior !

Thargor

Lovely work, hope you make a thread about the digger.

greendragon3

we attended a local show this weekend at lissadell house , we brought some of our old zetors and my old Granada plus the case , got a nice reaction to the case , lot of people well impressed with it .

greendragon3

spent the day yesterday stripping and rebuilding a 3 ton mini digger for a man , she needed all new pins and bushings in the arm and bucket , some of them were a bit tricky but i think she came out well and a lot of the play and wear is gone , he want us to paint it in the near future so i will start a new thread when we start ,some pics .

greendragon3

Odelay

Fresh looking machine but did she have a bit of trauma to the base of the boom?

And an edit, what is that hurdy gurdy in the background of the first pic? Looks like a cross between an old hay rake and a tram???

colm_mcm

That's unbelievable looking.
fair play to all involved

greendragon3

started our next project this week while the shed is quiet , our work horse transit tipper has been getting very crispy lately and the sills are shot so we got stuck in and got a new set made , we are going to give her the full works and hopefully have her ready for the DOE next month .

greendragon3

bit of an update , today we did a bit more stripping on the ould transit ( guess i should start a new thread really ) , :thumbdown: anyway the new sills are in and the brother had to weld in a new cross member into the rear tipper chassis as it was rank rotten , we did some rubbing down and i took as much of the plastics as i could off , paint on the way tomorrow , few pics

D0NNELLY

Did you ever finish the digger?

greendragon3

D0NNELLY wrote: »

Did you ever finish the digger?

hi ya mate , sorry for the delay in replying , i thought this thread was gone tbh , yeah we got the digger finished and on her way , dont have any up to date pictures sorry .:(

Slideways

OI! Put that safety bar up under that tipping body!!

Nice work horse, you're keeping busy. I doubt you'll be going to Burns for the DoE on the transit

greendragon3

Slideways wrote: »

OI! Put that safety bar up under that tipping body!!

Nice work horse, you're keeping busy. I doubt you'll be going to Burns for the DoE on the transit

how ya boss hows life treating ya , ha ha funny enough we DO go to burns for the DOE and she passed the last two times so im happy enough , had an issue a few weeks ago with the camper for test , they were classing her as a HGV for some reason and were trying to charge me nearly €200 for the test instead of €97 but i kicked up and got it sorted !

sogood

While I would never regard myself particularly as a fan of tractors, I love your posts and the work you do. I love to see anything old, worn out and getting past it's sell by date, brought back from the brink and saved to live another day/lifetime.

Keep up the great work.